The
minutes of the November 2,
2006 meeting were reviewed and approved.

Terry
Reynolds handed out the Treasurer’s report which
showed that the FVPL had $16,814.07 as of December 5, 2006.The
Treasurer’s report was approved.

The
audit committee has not met yet to perform the audit of
the FVPL financial records.

A.Art
Committee Report

Patricia
Van Pelt and Phyllis
Johnson reported on the art committee’s progress.The
latest acquisition was a painting of a
birch tree titled “Mother Tree” by artist Joyce Koskenmaki.Patricia Van Pelt told us that she will be
working on a booklet of information about art in the library.Dick Rupley showed us some prints of some old
local area prints which have been colorized.

B.Blanket
Order Update

Terry
Reynolds reported that he
has been in contact with Ruby Machi at the Simply Home Company and that
the
company has not been able to complete our project yet.

C.Book
cart update

Terry
Reynolds reported that Nov.
2006 has been the best month ever for book cart sales.Terry Reynolds gave kudos to Patricia Van
Pelt and Karen Hubbard for their excellent stocking of the book cart.

D.2007
Annual Book Sale

Eloise
Haller confirmed with MUB
personnel that the annual book sale is from noon
on April 10-April 11, in MUB Ballroom A.Amy Hughessaid that when the
room was reserved, only Ballroom B was available, not Ballroom A.Eloise Haller will contact the MUB to verify
which MUB Ballroom we are scheduled for.

Faith
Morrison will email Tech
Today with another book donation solicitation and will contact
individuals
directly who she knows will be retiring or moving soon and ask them if
they
have any books they would like to donate.We discussed posting our book donation solicitation every month
in Tech
Today.

Faith
Morrison will be the chair
of Publicity for the book sale. Eloise Haller will be the chair of the
Personnel
committee for the book sale.

Dana
Richter requested that the
Book Sale spreadsheet that Eloise Haller is maintaining be sent to FVPL
members
just before the book sale.

E.2007
Friends' Winter Carnival Hot Chocolate & Cookie event

We agreed to host
another FVPL
Winter Carnival event on Saturday,
February 10, 2007 at 11 am
in the library lobby.We opened at 10 am last time, and we had very
little traffic
between 10 am and 11 am, so we decided to open at 11 am in 2007.

We
will have free hot chocolate
and cookies; and sell blankets, note cards, and used books.Don Durfee said that we will need a larger
selection of used books because many people were interested in more
books the
last time we did this.We will have a
signup
sheet at the January meeting for this event.

F.Next
work bee?

We
will discuss when to have the
next work bee at the January, 2007 meeting.

G.Library
requests

The
board approved the MTU Archives
request for $400 from the FVPL to purchase photo frames and hardware
for
Archives photo exhibits.

The
board approved the request to
purchase a library patron laptop replacement with a new Dell laptop for
about
$900.One of the laptops that the FVPL
purchased for the Library patron laptop program is no longer
functioning
reliably, and repairing it would be expensive.

H.Other
Business

At the January, 2007
meeting we will
discuss the formation of a committee to work on the FVPL blanket.

Terry Reynolds
reminded us that we need to
move empty boxes from Faith Morrison’s office to the FVPL office.

The
meeting adjourned
at 5:07 pm.

The next
regular meeting will be held on Thursday, January 18, 2007, 4-5:00 pm,
in the library.